title: Hepatic veno-occlusive disease after high-dose mitomycin C and autologous bone marrow transplantation therapy.
abstract: Three cases of veno-occlusive disease of the liver were diagnosed in four autopsied patients who had received high-dose mitomycin C therapy followed by autologous bone marrow transplantation, and the pathologic finding are reported. Review of 27 liver, examined post mortem, of patients receiving other high-dose chemotherapeutic regimens, 15 of them with subsequent autologous bone marrow transplantation, revealed no evidence of veno-occlusive disease. Veno-occlusive disease may now become a dose-limiting factor in the use of the combined high-dose mitomycin C-bone marrow transplantation therapy. Attention is also drawn to the increasing number of veno-occlusive disease cases being reported in associated with alkylating agents.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016685:Mitomycin; D008937:Mitomycins / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects*
chemical_list: D008937:Mitomycins; D016685:Mitomycin